Tuesday, November 18, 2008

It is finished!! 11 weeks ago, I began leading a Scrapbooking Bible Study at my church on the Fruit of the Spirit (Galations 5:22). I used this book as a reference for the Biblical lessons, but used my own scrapbooking experience to teach the class. (Frankly, the scrapbooking part of the book was pitiful - but the lessons were good!). Each class we would spend 45 minutes finishing up the layout from the week before and then start the next lesson/fruit. We'd work through 5-6 verses and have a discussion, then plan our layout. The homework was for each lady to gather her pictures, papers, embellishments, etc.: everything she would need to complete that particular layout. Then we would return the next week - stick everything down and start the next lesson.

Tomorrow is the final class - I can't wait to see everyone's completed albums! And I'm so proud of my own album - this was harder than I expected and each layout is very special to me. Click on the thumbnails to view the full-size images.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Everyone once in a while, you create something and then sit back can say, "WOW... I'm good!" *wink* We have some friends from our Sunday School class who are moving out-of-state. I collected family photos of nearly everyone in our class (I even brought my camera to church for about 4 weeks to take photos of families who didn't have anything current!), and then made this layout:

Our class is called "ROOTS" (hence the play on words in the banner). We presented the framed layout to our friends last weekend - they loved it!! I was really excited how nicely things came together!! Hope it inspires you in your own layouts!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I need to make a layout based on the Milton Bradley board game: The Game of Life. Of course, there are minimal paper items out there - let alone digital! So I made my own kit yesterday. I'll be working my layout with it this week! The kit is HUGE! Lots of stuff for your own family game layouts! You can purchase the full kit at the MagsGraphics Store or at MooTwo Designs. I also have a FREEBIE sampler set that can be downloaded below! Many thanks to Scrap Shana for the CU arrow on my spinner!

"Life is a Game" Kit:

I'd love to see any layouts you make using any of my kits, and I'm happy to post a link to your blog if you include it in a post! Just leave a comment here with your information!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

I've been on a quest to create digital torn edges in Paint Shop Pro.... not with an action in Photoshop, not by scanning in a paper edge, but 100% from scratch digitally........

So far, my quest has been thwarted. *sigh*

But I did find a fabulous freebie blog where the owner DID scan some great edges (and TONS of other paper/office type things for scrap pages!) and her freebies are CU-okay! So until I can create my own (I'm not giving up yet!), I'm going to be using hers!

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